Finding My Way Back Out of The Silence

There has been silence here for a bit. But I’m finding my way back. The end of the semester got crazy for me. It was the hardest semester I have ever had. Who takes some of the hardest classes of their school career the last semester before graduating? One that I didn’t even need, I just needed one credit and it could have been in anything???

Me, that’s who.

This was my response to my daughter who was trying to take cheeky photos.

May 2nd I graduated with a BA in Psychology with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of Mississippi with honors! This fulfilled a dream I have had of getting my BA in Psychology for many years. The same weekend my husband retired from the Army National Guard after 22 years of service. It was a big weekend.

The week after graduating, my husband was out of town for work, and I realized that I had just a couple of weeks until the kids were home for the summer. I needed to spend some time practicing some self-care after the brutal semester I had just survived. So I went to the library and got a pile of books. For the whole week I alternated between reading and gardening. Adding in a nap from time to time too. My body and soul needed this.

I’ve kept telling myself that I need to write. I need to get back to my blog. I have partial thoughts and posts floating around, but I wasn’t doing anything with them. Writers will tell you, you should write every day. But the truth is, some days? We don’t. I just wasn’t ready.

Until tonight.

My husband is out of town again, my children have 3 days of school left. I’m hopefully on the verge of getting a full-time job and I’m applying for graduate school. My soul knows my days at home alone in the silence, reading, gardening, and catching up on everything I let go is coming to a close. I’m so thankful for these last couple of weeks. They were a gift.

But tonight, it’s 10 pm as I write this. So this post when you read it tomorrow won’t be on my normal publishing schedule, as I just wanted to let you know I’m back. The silence is gone! Tonight, my soul was ready to sit down at the computer and begin to put into words the experiences of the last semester, the accomplishment of goals and challenges overcome by myself and my family. I’m ready to share my thoughts with you again, and I couldn’t be happier to be back!